Literary notes about Vehement (AI summary)
In literature, "vehement" is often employed to intensify the portrayal of strong emotions, ranging from fervent outbursts and impassioned rhetoric to vivid descriptions of natural and internal turmoil. Authors use the term to signal moments when characters shift from calm deliberation to explosive expression, as when a character’s despair or defiance reaches its peak [1, 2]. At the same time, it enriches narrative atmospheres—whether in depictions of stormy landscapes or in the fervor of a heated debate [3, 4, 5]—and even captures subtle shifts in disposition, underscoring a consistent link to both passionate conviction and vehement opposition [6, 7, 8].
- Yet they become stronger and more vehement every day, so that I am powerless to overcome them, and in weariness repine.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein - By long and vehement suit I was seduc'd To make room for him in my husband's bed.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Different, indeed, this Saguenay from all other rivers—different effects—a bolder, more vehement play of lights and shades.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Captain Nemo finished his sentence with a vehement gesture.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - And, then, there was that rather over-vehement hatred of hers!
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - He wanted the spectator to feel a passionate and vehement haste in the action; but he also wanted him to feel that the action was fairly probable.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley - He cursed himself like a less scrupulous Job, as a vehement man will do when he loses self-respect, the last mental prop under poverty.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy - He was so seldom vehement about anything.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
